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Startling regional differences are acting as barriers to those looking to step onto the property ladder for the first time, according...

A building society has launched a pilot project banning mortgage lending on holiday lets in two tourist areas for 12 months. Leeds...

A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

Propertymark has cautiously welcomed the Nationwide’s house price index showing a 5.3 per cent fall in the year to September. It says...

Young couples are delaying marriage and starting families until they get out of the rental sector, research by Yorkshire Building Society...

Propertymark is backing a call for financial help for landlords who improve the energy efficiency of their properties. The think tank E3G...

New analysis reveals that other family members beyond parents are increasingly lending their financial support to first-time buyers.   So far this year...

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is being urged to act now to stop the problems banks are creating for letting agents. Following a...

The Cambridge Building Society has selected two tenants by ballot to receive up to 70 per cent of their rent back...

The Bank of England has announced its latest change in base rate, which is used by most lenders to determine interest...

The Nationwide Foundation - a charitable foundation founded by the Nationwide Building Society - says the Renters Reform Bill should be...

Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...

The Nationwide Building Society is embarking on an experiment - at first for owner occupiers only - which may be extended...

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its unique Rent to Home scheme. Last month it announced that it had invested...

A company that tries to encourage people to buy a home in ‘chunks’ says few first time buyers are interested in...

The Bank of England has announced its latest decision on base rate. This has been increased by 0.25 per cent to 4.5...

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

The Cambridge Building Society has invested in two family-sized houses to expand its unique ‘Rent to Home’ rent-return housing scheme. The two...

A high profile mortgage lender operating in the buy to let sector has launched a series of products aimed at investors...

We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...

Property accreditation service safeagent has written to all of its agents in England urging them to check legal requirements when setting...

The average house price in Wales reached a new peak of £249,076 at the end of 2022 but cost of living...

A tax expert says the current economic climate has made it so hard to save for a deposit that many tenants...

The number of first-time buyers is estimated to have fallen by nine per cent in 2022, Yorkshire Building Society says. Analysis by...

A new survey from Aviva has revealed that over a million people may rule themselves out of the first-time buyer market,...

A building society which has taken the unprecedented step of stopping lending on second homes has been sharply criticised by a...

A quarter of homebuyers are putting off their purchase due to cost of living fears - and when it comes to...

Lettings franchisees under the Belvoir banner delivered the group an additional 10 per cent management service fees last year according to...

Belvoir Group has given yet another upbeat trading report to shareholders. It says in the 10 months to the end of October...

A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced.  And...

Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...

A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...

Franchise giants Belvoir has revealed strong figures in a trading statement to shareholders - but it’s warning that 2021 remains shrouded...

An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...

A charity claims that young people under 25 in full-time work across England are unable to afford privately rented accommodation anywhere in the...

Letting agents have joined forces with other players in the rental industry to demand the government finally get a grip on...

A family-run lettings and sales agency has launched an employee of the year award in memory of a late colleague.   The...

Connells has made it clear that the innovation and technology it has put into lettings are key to identifying the approach it...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...

A new mortgage product aimed at buy to let investors wanting to enjoy a slice of the holiday home staycation market...

The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...

There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

A roundtable discussion of rental industry leaders has produced a recommendation for the mandatory regulation of lettings agents. The objective, they say,...

A new building society mortgage product is aimed at allowing students to become first time buyers and to simultaneously become first...

A leading industry figure is calling on agents to have a Plan B ready if their bank closes undesignated client accounts.  This...

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...

The power held by tenants is growing across the UK, as new research indicates 61 per cent of buy to let...

OneSavings Bank, the parent organisation of specialist buy to let lender Kent Reliance, has given a warning on the possible impact...

A lender has launched a new product which is thought to be the first mortgage explicitly aimed at borrowers who propose...

A mortgage lender has created a special buy to let product aimed at landlords who let a property to a close...

Harrison Murray, the lettings division of the Nottingham Building Society, has launched a portal for landlords and tenants. The agency says it...

The Leaders Romans Group has acquired an independent lettings agency in Bath, taking it into the south western region for the...

The Nationwide Building Society says it is assembling what it calls ‘an industry alliance’ to support the increasingly-beleaguered private rental sector.   The...

Skipton is the latest lender to confirm that it will continue lending to so-called portfolio landlords after new Bank of England...

Leeds Building Society is the latest major lender to reveal changes to buy to let lending ahead of new rules coming...

The Coventry building society is the latest buy to let lender to tighten its portfolio buy to let criteria ahead of new...

Analysis of the government's latest English Housing Survey figures shows that there’s been a further decline in the home ownership rate...

The Loughborough Building Society is launching a Buy For Uni mortgage product seeking to encourage students to buy a home -...

The Leeds Building Society is the latest buy to let mortgage lender to amend its criteria for borrowers ahead of new...

Some 21 per cent of landlords wait four months or longer from purchasing their buy to let property before signing up...

Leeds Building Society has changed its mortgage criteria in a bid to encourage longer-term private rentals.    The UK’s fifth largest society will...

A group campaigning to secure refunds on alleged mortgage interest over-charging by buy to let lenders is calling on letting agents...

A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...

The Property 118 website - which last week won a notable victory in the Court of Appeal against a building society...

It is now thought that the likely average payout to each buy to let borrower affected by this week’s court decision...

A landmark court ruling against the West Bromwich building society has come down in favour of buy to let investors.  The case...

Ahead of what some consider as the likely tightening of buy to let mortgage lending criteria by the Bank of England...

Ahead of expected restrictions on buy to let lending to be introduced next year by the Bank of England, some individual...

The prospect of lending restraints for landlords next year has done little to deter lenders offering a wide range of deals...